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Newspaper The Bucyrus Evening Telegraph (Bucyrus, Ohio) 1894-1923 Evening telegraph

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About The Bucyrus Evening Telegraph (Bucyrus, Ohio) 1894-1923

This daily, eight-page evening newspaper served Crawford County, Ohio, from 1894 to 1923. Its founder and editor, John Edward Hopley (1850-1927), was a member of the prominent Hopley journalism family, who, besides running several successful publications, were leading citizens in the town of Bucyrus. They were also active and prominent members of the local Republican Party, despite Crawford County being reliably Democratic territory until the mid-1920s. Fellow Republican newspaper operator and later president Warren G. Harding (from nearby Marion, Ohio) was a friend of the family, and several Hopleys (including John E.) were given minor political appointments by Republican administrations throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Hopley’s 1912 book, History of Crawford County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, states that the Bucyrus Evening Telegraph’s predecessor, the Evening Telegraph, began in October 1887 as the “organ of the Young Men’s Republican Club” before ultimately developing into a permanent publication. The Bucyrus Evening Telegraph retained that Republican voice throughout its tenure. During its regular coverage of the 1920 presidential campaign, the paper’s preference for Harding was unmistakable, and on the day after the election it triumphantly hailed the landslide outcome with the bolded headline “Harding’s Victory Exceeds Roosevelt’s.” Besides political coverage, the Telegraph offered a wide variety of general news. National and international events, like Europe’s post-World War I convulsions, the Washington Naval Conference, and the Fatty Arbuckle trials, generally dominated the headlines, while local happenings and advertisements filled out the issues’ back pages.

Hopley’s book also notes that the Bucyrus Evening Telegraph and its weekly counterpart, the Bucyrus Journal, received a “Duplex Perfecting press” in August 1907, making them the first newspapers in Crawford County to be printed on a roll. In 1923, they merged with the Bucyrus Publishing Company’s competing Bucyrus Forum series, which was comprised of the semiweekly Bucyrus News-Forum and the Bucyrus Daily Forum. Together, all these Bucyrus newspapers formed the Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum, which still exists as of 2025 as the Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum.

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About this Newspaper

Title

  • The Bucyrus Evening Telegraph (Bucyrus, Ohio) 1894-1923

Other Title

  • Evening telegraph

Dates of Publication

  • 1894-1923

Created / Published

  • Bucyrus, Ohio : John E. Hopley, 1894-1923.

Headings

  • -  Bucyrus (Ohio)--Newspapers
  • -  Crawford County (Ohio)--Newspapers
  • -  Ohio--Bucyrus
  • -  Ohio--Crawford County
  • -  United States--Ohio--Crawford--Bucyrus

Genre

  • Newspapers

Notes

  • -  Daily
  • -  Vol. 14, no. 116 (Aug. 29, 1894)-v. 72, no. 29 (May 19, 1923).
  • -  On Saturday published as: Evening telegraph, Sept. 1, 1894-Oct. 16, 1897.
  • -  Merged with: Bucyrus journal (Bucyrus, Ohio : 1864), and: Daily forum (Bucyrus, Ohio), and: News-forum (Bucyrus, Ohio), to form: Telegraph-forum (Bucyrus, Ohio : 1923).
  • -  Bucyrus journal (Bucyrus, Ohio : 1864) (DLC)sn 87076600
  • -  Daily forum (Bucyrus, Ohio) (DLC)sn 87076603
  • -  News-forum (Bucyrus, Ohio) (DLC)sn 87076604
  • -  Telegraph-forum (Bucyrus, Ohio : 1923) (DLC)sn 83035560

Library of Congress Control Number

  • sn87076601

OCLC Number

  • 16619558

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The Bucyrus Evening Telegraph Bucyrus, Ohio -1923. (Bucyrus, OH) 1 Jan. 1894. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, aj.sunback.homes/item/sn87076601/.